Celebrity Deaths in the UK - Apr 2026

• 1 April – Mike Chaplin, 82, British artist

• 2 April – Nick Savva, 91, Cypriot-born British greyhound trainer and breeder

• 5 April

  • Tim Slessor, 95, British documentarian

  • David Wiffen, 84, English–Canadian folk singer-songwriter (Driving Wheel)

• 6 April

  • Angela Pleasence, 84, English actress (Hitler: The Last Ten Days, Coronation Street, Doctor Who)

  • Nick Pope, 60, British-born journalist and television personality (Ancient Aliens, UFOs Declassified, Britain’s Closest Encounters)

  • Sir Craig Reedie, 84, Scottish sports administrator, president of WADA (2014–2019), vice-president of the IOC (2012–2016), and chairman of the British Olympic Association (1992–2005)(death announced on this date)

• 7 April – Dame Averil Cameron, 86, British historian

• 8 April

  • Doug Allan, 74, Scottish wildlife photographer and cameraman

  • Brian Garvey, 88, English footballer (Hull City, Watford, Colchester United) (death announced on this date)

• 9 April

  • Jeremy Beecham, Baron Beecham, 81, British politician, member of the House of Lords (2010–2021)

  • Eirwyn George, 89, Welsh poet

• 10 April

  • Brian Rotman, 87, British academic (death announced on this date)

• 11 April

  • John Dalgleish Donaldson, 84, Scottish-Australian mathematician

  • John Nolan, 87, British actor (Person of Interest, Terror, Batman Begins)

  • Mike Westbrook, 90, English jazz pianist and composer

• 13 April

  • Henry Newton, 82, English footballer (Nottingham Forest, Derby County)

  • Nicky Smith, 57, English football player (Colchester United, Braintree Town) and manager (AFC Sudbury) (death announced on this date)

  • Ian Watson, 82, British science fiction author (The Jonah Kit, Chekhov's Journey, Queenmagic, Kingmagic)

• 14 April – Alexander Morton, 81, Scottish actor (Monarch of the Glen, Take the High Road, Taggart)

• 16 April

  • Tony Clarke, Baron Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony, 82, British lawyer, judge and life peer, member of the House of Lords (2009–2020)

  • Andy Kershaw, 66, English broadcaster and radio DJ (BBC Radio 1)

  • Billy Knight, 90, British tennis player

• 17 April – Finnian Garbutt, 28, British actor (Hope Street)

• 18 April – Gordon Livsey, 79, English footballer (Wrexham, Chester, Hartlepool United)(death announced on this date)

• 19 April

  • Ben Bartlett, 61, British composer

  • Dave Mason, 79, English Hall of Fame musician (Traffic) and songwriter ("Hole in My Shoe", "Feelin' Alright?")

  • Desmond Morris, 98, English zoologist (The Naked Ape), ethnologist and surrealist painter

• 20 April – Julian Hunt, Baron Hunt of Chesterton, 84, British meteorologist and life peer, member of the House of Lords (2000–2021)

• 21 April

  • Robin Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 5th Baron Derwent, 95, British hereditary peer, member of the House of Lords (1986–1999)

  • Elsie Kelly, 89, English actress (Benidorm, The Famous Five, Crossroads)

  • Barrie Tomlinson, 88, British comic book editor and writer (Roy of the Rovers, Speed, Wildcat)

• 22 April

  • Peter J. Carroll, 72–73, British occultist and writer

  • Kathy Dooley, 70, British singer (The Dooleys)

  • Allan Hosie, 80, Scottish rugby referee

  • Tony Parkes, 76, English football player (Buxton, Blackburn Rovers) and manager (Blackburn Rovers)

  • J. H. Prynne, 89, British poet

• 23 April

  • George Ley, 80, English footballer (Portsmouth, Dallas Tornado, Exeter City) (death announced on this date)

  • Josh Mauro, 35, English-born American football player (Arizona Cardinals, New York Giants, Jacksonville Jaguars)

• 24 April –

  • Bill Ind, 84, English Anglican bishop, bishop of Truro (1997–2008)(death announced on this date)

  • Quintin Young, 78, Scottish footballer (Rangers, Ayr United, East Fife)(death announced on this date)

• 25 April – Klaudia Zakrzewska, 32, British social media influencer

• 26 April – Nigel Dunnett, 63, British horticulturalist and academic (death announced on this date)

• 27 April – Beverley Martyn, 79, British singer-songwriter

• 28 April – George Dunn, 103, British air force officer

• 29 April

  • Richard Harries, Baron Harries of Pentregarth, 89, British Anglican clergyman and life peer, bishop of Oxford (1987–2006) and member of the House of Lords

  • Donald MacRae, 84, Scottish folk singer

  • Gordon Snell, 93, British children’s author (death announced on this date)

Information courtesy Wikipedia